Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly